Aims: to give students information about Harlem Renaissance; to emphasize the importance of Harlem Renaissance in Afro-American literature; to teach students the influence of Harlem Renaissance. Objectives

Frederick Douglass
While abolitionist Frederick Douglas (1818–95) initially came to public attention as an orator and the author of his autobiographical slave narrative, he eventually became the most outstanding African-American of his time and one amongst the foremost powerful lecturers and authors in American history. Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass eventually escaped and worked for various abolitionist causes. He also worked as an editor for different newspapers. Douglass' prominent work is biographical, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, that was released in 1845. At the time some critics attacked the book, not admitting that a Black might have written such great work. Despite this, the book was a right away bestseller.
Douglas later revised and enlarged his biography, that was republished as My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). additionally to serving in a very variety of political posts throughout his life, he additionally wrote varied powerful articles and essays.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, African country in 1977. She lived in the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in which her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. She studied medication for a year at Nsukka then left for the U.S.A. at the age of nineteen to continue her education on a distinct path. She graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and government.
She encompasses a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Her initial novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah won the U.S.A. National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one amongst The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2013.